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There is a striking irony in the way Sitaram Yechury is being remembered today.
K A Shaji in Facebook Pinarayi Vijayan and the Kerala CPI(M) leadership speak of Yechury as a towering communist, an exceptional parliamentarian and a great defender of secular India. But when Yechury was alive, the CPI(M) unit in Kerala, by then firmly under Pinarayi Vijayan’s iron grip, was among the strongest forces resisting him. This…
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January 2024 (Volume 75, Number 8) by The Editors BUY THIS ISSUE At the time of writing in late November 2023, Israel has continued its merciless assault on Gaza, which has killed tens of thousands at horrifying rates, as it also condones Israeli settler terrorism against Palestinians living in the West Bank. | more… REVIEW OF THE MONTH…
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AAKRITEE RAJ·JANUARY 6, 2024 A Hard Year For Federalism— Part 1 of the interview with P.D.T. Achary AAKRITEE RAJ·JANUARY 6, 2024 In the first part of this The Leaflet exclusive interview, one of India’s foremost constitutional and parliamentary procedure experts, P.D.T. Achary, expresses his thoughts on the general state of federalism in India and the Delhi ‘services’…
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THERBORN’S WORLD-CASTING The Left against Dialectics? Since the turn of the millennium, the Swedish sociologist Göran Therborn has been developing a series of formidably ambitious arguments in these pages, providing a near comprehensive overview of global politics, its principal forces, trajectories and tensions, plus the changing aims and tactics of the left.footnote1 At the core of these…
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Wadie Said: “There’s a question of who gets on the list…. It’s not something that you or I can say anything about or influence.” (image: The Mosaic Rooms) By Janine Jackson (Posted Jan 04, 2024) Originally published: FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting) on December 29, 2023 (more by FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting)) | Education, Human Rights, Movements, State RepressionAmericas, Middle East,…
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MUSKAN TIBREWALA·JANUARY 7, 2024 Two decisions, one of the Kerala High Court and the other of the Supreme Court of India represent a disturbing new trend of courts leaning away from respect for bodily autonomy and the choice of a pregnant person in access to abortion services. — IN a short span of four days, from…
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